Star-Advertiser coverage of the 2018 elections.
In the wake of Tommy Waters’ decisive Honolulu City Council win Saturday night, Mayor Kirk Caldwell and Council Chairwoman Ann Kobayashi spoke of the need to set aside politics and work more collaboratively in the coming months. Read more
Tommy Waters won the Honolulu City Council’s East Honolulu seat over Trevor Ozawa in a do-over special election that ended Saturday. Read more
The heated contest for the Honolulu City Council’s East Honolulu seat — forced into an unprecedented special election by the Hawaii Supreme Court — will draw to a conclusion tonight when the polling site at Honolulu Hale closes at 6 p.m. and the votes are counted a short time later. Read more
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With the Honolulu City Council District 4 special election one week away, candidate Trevor Ozawa is taking opponent Tommy Waters to task for declining to participate in four different forums and debates. Read more
Tommy Waters raised more and spent more than Trevor Ozawa through March 29 of their winner-take-all, third-round election dual for the Honolulu City Council District 4 seat. Read more
More than one-third of registered voters in Honolulu City Council District 4 have already cast votes in the special election between Trevor Ozawa and Tommy Waters Read more
The Office of Special Counsel has cleared Don Benton, President Donald Trump’s Selective Service director, of violating the Hatch Act during a speech he gave at the Hawaii Republican Party’s Constitution Day Dinner last year. Read more
The rematch in the race for Honolulu’s City Council District 4 seat has become an even more contentious battle as the two candidates and their supporters trade accusations and make counterclaims. Read more
Everyone agrees on the problem. Nobody knows how to solve it. Impatience is growing that we’re stuck. Read more
Hawaii lawmakers have passed several bills to make it easier to vote and boost confidence in elections. Read more
The City Council Legislative Matters Committee today voted 8-0 to recommend that former city Transportation Services Director Mike Formby be appointed as the interim Council District 4 representative. Read more
If adversity reveals character, what it’s showing us about former City Councilman Trevor Ozawa isn’t pretty. Read more
Hawaii is one of seven states lacking a state law allowing losing political candidates to petition for a recount. Read more
The Honolulu City Council has received nominations for 19 candidates to fill its Council District 4 seat for the next few months. Read more
Voters in the East Honolulu district will be mailed ballots in the weeks leading up to the decision day. Read more
City Clerk Glen Takahashi said his office should have a full explanation “within the next day or two.” Read more
A day after the Hawaii Supreme Court threw out Trevor Ozawa’s 22-vote victory over Tommy Waters for the City Council District 4 seat, Ozawa on Saturday criticized the decision. Read more
East Honolulu voters will have to wait until at least the middle of next week to learn the fate of their Honolulu City Council election. Read more
The justicies ruled LoPresti failed to show sufficiently that there were errors, mistakes or irregularities that could have changed the outcome of the election. Read more
Waters’ challenge has left the Council at a standstill from conducting regular business because of the deadlock between two factions of the current eight-member panel. Read more
Being born in American Samoa, where Gabbard lived until the age of 2, elicits unsettled constitutional questions about what it means to be a “natural-born citizen,” a requirement for the presidency, according to legal scholars. Read more
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